Unweaving the Rainbow; Science

This book of popular science answers the charge that scientific explanation drains wonder from the world. Dawkins takes Newton's unweaving of the rainbow as a model: analysis of light does not cancel the sight of a spectrum. He writes about DNA, selfish genes, the evolution of the eye and of brains that find patterns, and the errors of astrology, superstition, and poetic hostility to reduction. Poetry and physics are treated as compatible. The work is an argument about science and feeling, not a textbook of optics and not a memoir.

Bound in red and gilt image blocked black cloth.